It’s been awhile since we posted an update here for Reasons, but not for lack of labor! We’ve got a big backlog of new content coming to the channel on a slow drip, and this post is our sneaky peek of what’s coming next week to RetroStrange TV this month.

But first we want to thank our newest paid Patrons: David Millar, Coraline Ada Ehmke, Matt Witkowski, Kenn Messman, Matte Edens and the ominously named It. Thanks a ton for your monthly support, it helps more than I can say. Thanks to you our channel is officially paying all its server fees with Patron support! You non-Patrons can be as cool as them by becoming a Patron.

New To The Channel This April

We’re adding a 2 new vids to the channel this month, including a little promotional video from our pals at The Indie Beat TV, the awesome fediverse music video channel. tIB has been kind enough to include some RetroStrange bumpers in their lineup and we’re happy to do the same for them. Here’s the drop:

• The Voice Beneath The Sea, “Traces the establishment of the first telephone cable link beneath the Atlantic Ocean from North America to the British Isles and Europe. Scenes of the plants where the cable was manufactured and of the cable-laying ship on the high seas are combined with animated sequences explaining voice carrier, coaxial cable, radio relay, etc.” (Educational Film Guide, 1954-1958)
• Leave It to Roll-Oh, “Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a promo showing how relays and switches function in the modern automobile. Shown at the New York World’s Fair in 1940.”

The plan moving forward is to add 2 new items each month, even in absence of a Movie Night. I know it’s been awhile. Speaking of…

RetroStrange Movie Night

We are planning the first movie night in several months, in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for a dedicated post about it. For your newbies, RSMN is a live watch-a-along of a few new items and a few old ones, that we play at a specific day and time on the channel and invite folks to come crack wise about in the chat. It’s good fun. I’ll have more details about it next week!

Some Roku Stats

The unofficially official RetroStrange app for Roku is maintained by our friend lime bar, who also admins The Indie Beat. We recently ran some numbers and the app has been installed over 1,000 times! Pretty awesome to see. You’ve collectively watched over 1,200 hours of the channel that way, as well. Thanks for watching.

That’s all for now. Thanks for your support, and we’ll catch you next time.

— Phil Nelson, Station Manager

New programs added to RetroStrange TV:

• One Step Beyond (1959) – S1E18 – Image of Death
• One Step Beyond (1959) – S2E2 – Ordeal on Locust Street
• The Veil (1958) – Episode 1 – Vision of Crime

We’ll also have some vintage pro wrestling and shorts in between. See you there!

Today is launch day! Go watch!

We also added some new Holiday content to the GIF library, such as A Charles Dickens Christmas (1956) and A Christmas Fantasy (1962). These are watermark-free, high quality GIFs you can use anywhere you like. Enjoy!

Of course, as we have each of the last 4 years, this December 22 and 23 RetroStrange celebrates Festivus with a 24 hour screening of our favorite short feature, The Doughnuts. Watch our old pals Homer Price, Uncle Ulysses, Aunt Aggie, and Kabuki Lady for a whole day as you compete in feats of strength, the airing of grievances and admire your sturdy Festivus Pole, ad-free, tracker-free, on RetroStrange TV.

The full list of Xmas / Holiday content from the RetroStrange Catalog:

• Tales from Dickens- A Christmas Carol (1959)
• The Great Toy Robbery (1968)
• Post Early For Christmas (1943)
• The Loretta Young Show – Christmas Stopover (1955)
• Gruen Guild Playhouse – Joe Santa Claus (1951)
• The Twelve Days of Christmas (1963)
• Pathe News Christmas with Their Cameramen and Crews ‘Round the World (1950)
• Visit to Santa (1963)
• Mr Pickwick’s Christmas (1956)
• Scrooge (1935)
• A Christmas Fantasy (1962)
• Toys (1967)
• Spunky the Snowman (1968)
• The Snow Queen (1959)
• The Christmas Deer: A Legend Retold (1958)
• The Christmas Carol as told by Vincent Price (1949)
• The Paul Winchell Show – Christmas episode (1953)
• Miracle On 34th Street (1955)
• Santa Claus vs The Devil (1959)
• Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen (1949)
• A Visit from St. Nicholas (1949)
• The Christmas Party (1931)
• The Judy Garland Show – S01E02 – Christmas Episode (1963)
• A Film Making Experience (The Night Before Christmas) (1974)
• Christmas Cracker (1964)
• Christmas Snows, Christmas Winds (1978)
• A Christmas Rhapsody (1948)
• A Charles Dickens Christmas (1956)
• A Christmas Carol (1969)
• Magic Christmas Tree (1964)
• The Christmas Visitor (1962)

All of these are sourced from the Internet Archive, hallowed be thy name.

• Gus Arnheim and his Ambassadors
• Roscoe’s Rules
• What Do You Do About Rules?
• Motion Perception
• Hollywood Bound
• Mr. Digit
• Survey of the Primates
• Small Milk Plant Operation
• Larynx and Voice
• Studio One version of 1984

Shorts subject to change and we may add a few more shorts not listed here just for fun.

New content is now in the Rotation:

• The Cosmic Man (1959)
• Dinosaurs the Terrible Lizards (1986)
• Tales Of Frankenstein – The Face In The Tombstone Mirror (1958)
• A variety of toy commercials, drive-in movie bumpers and intermissions

Halloween-Only Random Occurrences:

• Bela Lugosi in the Phantom Creeps (Chapters 1 – 12) is out of the vault!
• So is 2024’s Explorer From Another World

Halloween Movie Night 

• Halloween Movie Night Friday October 31st, put us on in the background of your party!

Movie Night returns this July 25th as part of the Radio Free Fedi Fest with a super marathon of our favorite tokusatsu hero, Star Man. Join us July 25th starting at 2000 UTC (that’s 1pm Pacific time) and running through the entire Star Man English dub catalog:

• Atomic Rulers of the World
• Invaders from Space
• Attack From Space
• The Evil Brain From Outer Space

We’ll see you there, live on RetroStrange TV.

On our next movie night, streaming live only on RetroStrange TV, we’ll be screening some new-to-the-channel Science shorts from the of Science and Scientists series, and then a 1940s British comedy-thriller titled Saloon Bar.

Join for the free media, stay for the witty banter in the chatroom, starting at 4:30pm Pacific at RetroStrange.TV.